Unfortunately, time constraints meant that I did not get the opportunity to write the usual reviews for May’s albums of the month. Nevertheless, the selection here comes very highly recommended – in fact this month arguably produced the most impressive haul of high-quality albums of any so far this year. Please enjoy!
WARNING: All albums and their accompanying videos are completely uncensored. A number of them contain bad language that is unsuitable for children, NSFW topics and images, and/or political commentary that may offend or disturb some.
Album of the Month
Mckinley Dixon – For My Mama and Anyone Who Look Like Her (Rap/Jazz, Spacebomb)
Standout tracks: Bless The Child, make a poet Black
For fans of: Kendrick Lamar, Saba
The Contenders
2. CHAI – WINK (Pop/Electronic, Sub Pop)
Standout tracks: ACTION, END
For fans of: Gorillaz, The Chemical Brothers, Superorganism
3. Mustafa – When Smoke Rises (Folk/R&B, Regent Park Songs)
Standout tracks: Air Forces, Stay Alive
For fans of: Sampha, James Blake, Sufjan Stevens
4. AUDREY NUNA – A Liquid Breakfast (Rap/R&B, Arista Records)
Standout tracks: damn Right, Baby Blues
For fans of: Tkay Maidza, Princess Nokia
5. Sons of Kemet – Black to the Future (Jazz, Impulse! Records)
Standout tracks: To Never Forget the Source, Pick Up Your Burning Cross
For fans of: Shabaka And The Ancestors, The Comet is Coming, Ezra Collective
6. Bachelor – Doomin’ Sun (Indie Rock, Lucky Number Music Limited)
Standout tracks: Anything At All, Doomin’ Sun
For fans of: Jay Som (who is a member of the band), Spoon, Beach Bunny,
7. black midi – Cavalcade (Rock/Experimental, Rough Trade Records)
Standout tracks: Slow, Ascending Forth
For fans of: Radiohead, Black Country, New Road
8. Antarctic Wastelands & Norvik – As With the City (Ambient/Neo-Classical, Echoes Blue Music)
Standout tracks: As The Lights Dim, All Along The Harbour
9. CZARFACE & MF DOOM – Super What? (Hip-Hop, Silver Age)
Standout tracks: Break in the Action, Mando Calrissian
For fans of: MF DOOM, Inspectah Deck (who is a member of the band), A Tribe Called Quest
10. Jack Ingram, Miranda Lambert, & Jon Randall – The Marfa Tapes (Country, Vanner Records)
Standout tracks: Waxahachie, The Wind’s Just Gonna Blow
For fans of: Pistol Annies, Kacey Musgraves
Honourable Mentions
11. Mdou Moctar – Afrique Victime (Rock, Matador)
12. Robert Finley – Sharecropper’s Son (Blues/Soul, Easy Eye Sound)
13. Green-House – Music for Living Spaces (Ambient, Leaving Records)
14. Balkan Taksim – Disko telegraf (Dance/Electronic/Traditional Balkan Music, Hera Mundus Productions SRL)
15. Alfie Templeman – Forever Isn’t Long Enough (Pop, Chess Club)
16. Natalia Lafourcade – Un Canto por México Vol. 2 (Ranchera/Bolero, Sony Music Entertainment México)
17. Violet Cold – Empire of Love (Metal/Shoegaze, Violet Cold)
18. Sophia Kennedy – Monsters (Alt-Pop, City Slang)
19. Billie Marten – Flora Fauna (Singer-Songwriter/Indie Rock, Fiction Records)
20. Voronoi – The Last Three Seconds (Jazz/Experimental, Small Pond Recordings)
21. VOLA – Witness (Metal/Djent, Mascot Records)
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